Knowing the old German saying, "Ordnung muss sein!" (There must be order!) I would guess that theFeldgendarmerie had a number of signals that were used with the hand held traffic paddles. Any ideaswhere I might find information on the proper traffic signals used by the German WW2 Military Policewith paddles like these? I have attempted a number of web searches and not found anything.

ye, he is usualy the best source, however I find just halding up the want and saying Halt, usualy works regardless, when I am doing crowd/traffic controll at events, I only need to get my wand out and people do what they are told , in my group my unit is often called upon to do such jobs, being Field Police has its fun moments, and public and re-enactors alike seem to respect you doing it, would be nice to have a list of actions, and signals, if you get anything could you post it here please .

ye, he is usualy the best source, however I find just halding up the want and saying Halt, usualy works regardless, when I am doing crowd/traffic controll at events, I only need to get my wand out and people do what they are told , in my group my unit is often called upon to do such jobs, being Field Police has its fun moments, and public and re-enactors alike seem to respect you doing it, would be nice to have a list of actions, and signals, if you get anything could you post it here please .

Yes Sir I sure will! So far I only have found the signals that I posted

photos of above from "The Service Instruction in the Army" Manual by Dr. Reibert

ye, he is usualy the best source, however I find just halding up the want and saying Halt, usualy works regardless, when I am doing crowd/traffic controll at events, I only need to get my wand out and people do what they are told , in my group my unit is often called upon to do such jobs, being Field Police has its fun moments, and public and re-enactors alike seem to respect you doing it, would be nice to have a list of actions, and signals, if you get anything could you post it here please .

I find just wearing the GFP uniform does the trick, everyone scatters when im around, best useage is Great Central Railway.graham

1) Watch out b)Understood,ready,ready to departure. c)Sit still2)Step up,approach b)faster3)March in formation,at ease4)Lower gear,slower5)Leave the street,enemy airplane take cover6)Passing not possible7)Reduce the distance8 )Increase the distance9)Start the engine10)Turn off the engine

Only down side to this, is that your gona be the only one who knows what your doing, everyone one else will think your just waving your stick again Its noce to know these, but generaly when I have to use my wand, its for coralling and controlling the public, so I just shout in english and tell em to move or stand back so they dont get run over by a tank etc (you still get the odd idiot that ignores you then suddenly realises why everyone else had stopped)

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